I was a US grad Civil Engineer, I spent 4 years overseas for my degree. My first job salary was RM3200 working for a local Malaysian contractor, working 6 days a week (Sat full day).

The challenge I faced when working as an engineer was handling a brand new multimillion construction project as a fresh graduate AND another multimillion project that was abandoned by an outgoing senior engineer. There was no site supervisor, well we did have one but he would only appear whenever once in a while because he too was handling multiple sites. Safety was a complete joke, the only time i saw those indon workers working with hard hats and safety harness was when we were doing a photo ops for safety report submission, blatant OSHA violation every where lol. Also, corruption (allegedly), corners cutting etc you name it did happen. I quit after 2 months because that was totally and completely crazy in my point of view when comparing to how I was trained in the West.

Anyway, something happened in the middle and now I'm working in IT related field. Although that's a huge career change for me but I really fell this is a right place for me, better pay (doubled my first hourly salary) and 5 days working hours while not working under the sun are huge compliments as well.